Nikol Petkova
Graphic & Motion
Designer

Hey! I’m 23 years old graphic and motion designer. Born in Bulgaira and based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I work as a Graphic Designer, especially fond of editorial design and print. I have been working more with motion design and photography. In my free time I tend to dance a lot and this connects me with the motion even more! I see design as a practice to move people in a certain way.

Softwares:

Photoshop

Indesign

Illustrator

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Figma

Davinci Resolve

Blender

Education

2021-2025

2018-2021

Work Experience

06.2024-ongoing

11-12.2025

01-06.2024

11.2019- 01.2020

Willem De Kooning Academie
Bachelor Graphic Design, Social Practice
Rotterdam, Netherlands

SoftUni Creative
Sofia, Bulgaria

Studio Design Mooves, Self-employed

DPDK, Graphic Design Intern
Marketing team

Alt8, Internship

Post-Production Intern

For the last 4 years I worked on printed publications, motion graphics, creative coding and interactive design. I specialised with Social Design and my main focus was Editorial and Motion design.

I attended SoftUni Creative while doing my studies in high school. During the day I studied English literature and in the evening I was going to Softuni where we studied graphic and web design, video effects and video editing, 3D animation and visualization.

I have been working on editorial and motion design with clients, developing brand identities, working on social media content and designing websites.

This internship thought me of conducting research regarding case studies and how to develop one, how to work with Design and Marketing Team, learning the know-hows of AI and Design, and seeing the workflows in a bigger company. I had the opportunity to work fully in Figma and Adobe Suite.

The internship taught me about presenting ideas, preparing different solutions and executing them. Since then, I developed a better structure throughout my projects and a stronger level of concept development.

The ministry of education wanted to make series of interviews of professionals from different fields . My task was to assist during filming and work on the post-production.

Exhibitions

11.2025

Shortlisted, Publication Design
ADCE Europe Student Awards , Barcelona, Spain

07.2025

Graduation Show, WdKA
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

05-09.2025

Chamount Graphic Design Biennale
Chamount, France

2018-2019

Short film competition 1st Place
Huawei Short Film Festival 3rd Place
Sofia, Bulgaria